Archive for January, 2007
How To Add Ruby/Rails To Your Existing Apache Setup
Still very much in the process of learning Rails myself, I have pretty much mastered the process of running Webrick and Mongrel. Granted, it *is* an easy process.However, I wanted to be able to run my own Ruby applications along my other, mostly PHP-based, applications. That’s where the challenge usually begins. If you use a dedicated server process, you end up having to serve your pages from a non-standard port, such as 3000. This typically does not work for users who are behind a proxy. Additionally, this means that the simplest approach is to ignore virtual servers and run each application on a different port.
I was expecting the RoR Wiki to be helpful. And, overall, it really is; but in this case I found it mostly frustrating, due to some of its information being outdated and not really all that synthetic.
And that is why I decided, inspired by that Wiki, to create my own guide. Note that this guide describes using Ruby with mod_fastcgi.
Note that this guide describes using Ruby with mod_fcgid. I am sure that you’ve read that mod_fastcgi wasn’t working properly and this was a real concern, forcing you to instead use Apache proxying with a regular Ruby server. Not anymore. mod_cfgid fixes all that. No need for an additional server, no need for mod_ruby either.
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Where is getElementsByClassName()?
Since one of the goals of this blog is to show you how we resolved some of the issues we encounter when writing modern Web applications, allow me to repost this short article that I originall posted at goodjavascript.com
It’s an extremely common problem: you want to retrieve all the “special” links embedded in your web page. Or all the text areas with a certain style.
You looked at someone else’s code and found that they use the method getElementsByClassName() profusely.
However, when you tried, there was no such method.
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